Zenith: Last Revenant

Several decades had passed since Spencer had officially become the strongest creature on the planet. By claiming the land, sea, and skies as his domain, he now stood at the pinnacle of the current world. In his glory he grew extremely apathetic to the things happening around him, he was already at the top, having nothing else to strive for, life became bland.

He had tried many things to give himself a challenge. Swimming to the bottom of the ocean to adapt to the extreme forces it holds, jumping from the highest peaks he could find to increase his durability, he had even intentionally got himself struck by lightning from flying above the clouds during storms to strengthen himself.

All of this soon posed less and less of a challenge, until it got to the point that they no longer stimulated his ŀust for power. Spencer was now deeply depressed with how strong he had become.

Spencer could be seen walking in a desert landscape; no true destination in his mind, he was just a lone wanderer in a world filled with creatures of massive proportions, traveling the land to find purpose in himself.

His decades-long journey had led him to many different landscapes holding many different species, but none managed to give Spencer a suitable challenge; he already stood at the pinnacle.

He decided to spend the rest of his time exploring, familiarizing himself with the rest of the planet, and the environment as a whole.

In his exploration, Spencer had come in contact with many oddities he had never observed before, most of which were extremely poisonous plants and giant bugs that would put any modern-day insect to shame.

Upon discovering these plants, Spencer had continuously exposed his body to them to build up his immunity to their poisons. After a few attempts, he was now completely immune to any poisons that could be found on this prehistoric Earth.

When Spencer had come across the giant bugs in his journey, he was shocked at first, but he soon grew curious from the hardened carapace they held on their bodies. Upon realizing how durable they were he decided to absorb a few of them to increase his body's durability.

In doing so Spencer gained a sturdy retractable exoskeleton that he can utilize whenever he needed, this new exoskeleton was much stronger than the armored scales he had in his demi-human form. It would be formed from his skin hardening into an incredibly dense bone-like layer of armor, shrouding his human or demi-human forms.

When he gained this new ability, he was excited by what it could do, but he soon became greatly bothered by it, as the armor only made him more powerful than he was before. This would just further decrease his chances of finding something, anything that could challenge him.

He could now be seen above a volcanic biome, flying. He was growing tired of walking, so he decided that he would stretch his wings a bit, to explore other pieces of the Earth.

"Ooooh, what's what?"

He was flying above a biome populated with large mountains and hills. At the biome's epicenter, he spotted a peculiar-looking mountain that was much larger than the others surrounding it. The mountain was releasing an orange hue from its summit, attracting Spencer's attention.

Flying towards the mountain, Spencer landed on the side of its peak and looked over the edge.

"HOT!"

A gust of immensely hot air had burst out of the mountain as Spencer peered over the edge.

"Huh, is this an active volcano?"

Concluding that this mountain was a volcano at the center of this biome, he became curious once again. Feeling the heat from the volcano, an idea came to his mind.

"Maybe this can finally give me what I want!"

Spencer spread his wings and flew directly above the volcano.

"No, I can't miss this chance!"

Altering his trajectory, he folded his wings and dove straight into the entrance of the volcano. The immense heat began to sear his skin before his body even touched the magma.

Reaching deeper into the volcano, Spencer closed his eyes as he was approaching the molten lava.

*BOOM!*

A small explosion rang out as Spencer dove into the volcano's lava. His screams of pain could not be heard as the lava began seeping into his mouth, filling his lungs and invading his body. The pain he was feeling was excruciating, he couldn't remain conscious for even a second as his body burned up, his mind forced into darkness.

The years began to pile up, soon a century has passed. Deep within the soil of the now withered landscape, Spencer was in a state of advanced hibernation from the stunt he had pulled. His body needed time to set everything in place.

*GROAN*

A groan could be heard coming from underground, seeping through the cracks of the surface. Spencer was slowly waking up from his century-long slumber.

Opening his eyes, he couldn't see anything, so he attempted to move.

*CRACK!*

*RUMBLE!*

Synchronized with his movements, the sound of rocks breaking and tremors rang out. The sound of the tremors was enhanced greatly by his senses, causing Spencer immense pain.

*GRUNT*

Spencer winced at the pain and stopped moving.

"What was that?" - He questioned inside his head.

Going for a second attempt at moving, the ground began to shake in response, the sound of the tremors was again amplified due to his senses.

Spencer was now stuck in a dilemma, every time he moved, the ground trembled in response which was then enhanced by his senses, causing him a great deal of pain.

*SIGH*

*BOOM!*

An explosion rang out as Spencer launched himself from underground with a force comparable to a missile. The shockwave caused the soil to burst open violently, debris sent hurdling in all directions.

Escaping his tomb, Spencer was now climbing to two thousand meters above the ground. Losing velocity his ascension came to a sudden stop and he began to fall back down to the earth.

*THUD!*

Spencer landed with a heavy thud, sinking into the soil. The sounds are still being amplified by his senses.

"What is going on?!" He exclaimed holding his head, wincing in pain once again.

Taking his feet from the ground and standing up, Spencer looked around. Observing the surroundings, he saw nothing but destruction, the once flush landscape was painted black, many of the trees were withered away.

"What has happened here?"

As he asked in confusion, his mind was flooded with the memories of what he did and where he was.

"Ah… The volcano probably erupted…" he thought.

Spencer let this sink into the back of his mind as he began searching for any signs of life. However, despite his efforts, he found nothing for miles around the volcano.

Sprouting his wings, he took to the skies to further his search for any signs of life. Still not coming across anything, he decided to pick up his speed.

After some time had passed, Spencer felt as if he could go faster, he felt that his body was leagues above what it was before. Raising his wings, he directed his strength into them, flapping his wings as hard as he could.

*FWOOSH!*

Spencer shot forward with immense force, creating an air pocket as he flew above the trees. The shockwaves that followed pulled them straight from their roots.

Two minutes had passed since he had been flying at a speed around Mach 5 when he finally spotted the signs of life.

He spotted a herd of massive long-necked dinosaurs, and he immediately flew towards them. As he landed in front of the animals, he had spooked them, causing one of the massive beasts to swing its tail at Spencer.

This wasn't a good idea.

*CRACK!*

An audible cracking sound rang out while the tail of the creature snapped on contact with Spencer's body. The creature shocked by the unexpected pain began to wail from its tail being suddenly broken.

"AAAAAAH!"

Spencer felt a sharp searing pain in his head. His senses were so greatly enhanced that the wailing was amplified to be comparable to him being next to an airplane jet.

"STOP! SHUT UP!"

Spencer couldn't handle the pain of his senses being overloaded, causing him to fall to the ground, tHe sound driving him insane every second that went by. He couldn't take it anymore, he launched himself at the creature, knocking it over and quickly slamming his fist into its skull, killing it instantly, no pain, no suffering, just silence…

Spencer immediately spread his wings and flew away from the location at his top speed. Spencer was tired, tired of these creatures, and how their only purpose seems to be driving him to the brink of insanity.

He flew himself into a mountain causing the entire range to tremor violently. Spencer decided to seclude himself until he can adjust to his senses being enhanced to such an unbearable degree, closing his eyes he began to give his body time to adapt.

Several days later, with a loud rumbling bluster, Spencer came out of his distress as the area began to quake.

His instincts screaming imminent danger, he immediately flew out of the mountain, causing it to collapse. What he saw when he exited the mountain confused him, all the creatures were running, trying to escape from something.

Spencer didn't know what was wrong, but he knew something wasn't right. All of a sudden he noticed that the daylight was getting brighter and the temperature was increasing dramatically.

Spencer immediately looked up to try and find the cause; what he had seen shook his very being, his body froze, his mind became devoid of all thoughts. Fear was the only thing Spencer felt, not since he arrived in this world had he felt such an imminent death.

What he had seen was a massive meteor spanning miles across hurtling towards the earth. He wanted to move, he wanted to fly away, but he couldn't.

*BOOM!*

The meteor collided with the Earth, causing a bone-chilling explosion, vaporizing all life within its range and melting away the rest.

Spencer was forced into hibernation for the next few million years as the Earth gradually recovered from this mass-extinction event....